Be The Best of Whatever You Are

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley, but be the best little scrub by the side of the rill
If you can't be a bush be a bit of grass, and some highway happier make;
If you can't be a muskiek, then just be a bass, but the liveliest bass in the lake!
We can't all be captains, we've got to be the crew,
There's something for all of us here, There's big work to do.
And the task we must do is the near, if you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun, be a star; it isn't by the size that you win or fail,
Be the best of whatever you are!

~Douglas Mallech